3 Quotes by André Gorz

With you I understood that pleasure is not something you give or take. It's a way of giving yourself and calling forth the gift of self from another person.

Socialism' should not be taken to mean merely subordinating the economy to the needs and values of society. It also involves the creation, as an effect of ever shorter and increasingly flexible working hours, of a growing sphere of sharing within the community, of voluntary and self-organized co-operation, of increasingly extensive self-determined activities.

Die institutionellen Entscheidungsträger, die diese Politiken ins Werk setzen können, sind jedoch nicht die Akteure jener anderen Gesellschaft, die heraufkommen muß. Man darf von der Politik nur erwarten, daß sie die Freiräume schafft, in denen sich die alternativen sozialen Praktiken entwickeln können.