At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

- Roberto Unger

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capita…

- Roberto Unger

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of mora…

- Roberto Unger

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

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 fro…

- Roberto Unger

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

The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the main objective……

- Roberto Unger

The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world …

- Roberto Unger

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiab…

- Roberto Unger