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People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.

We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death.

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

The future is our greatest adversary. We are a very backward-looking society, and as such, we are continually blindsided by the future.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.