Social solidarity must rest (instead) on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be realized through the principle that every able-bodied adult holds a position within a caring economy -… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be… — 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 Image
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 Image
The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away. — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
