The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the… — Roberto Unger Copy Share
Social solidarity must rest (instead) on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be… — Roberto Unger Copy Share
The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away. — Roberto Unger Copy Share
The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. — Roberto Unger Copy Share
In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction. — Roberto Unger Copy Share
The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities… — Roberto Unger Copy Share
One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that… — Roberto Unger Copy Share
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form… — Roberto Unger Copy Share
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation… — Roberto Unger Copy Share
When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see,… — Roberto Unger Copy Share
At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be… — Roberto Unger Copy Share
