Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.- Hannah Arendt
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
