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" Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. "

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" Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. "

" Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. "

" The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. "

" Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. "

" No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. "

" Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. "

" The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. "

" The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. "

Human Condition

" 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. "

" Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. "

" Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. "

" We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. "

" Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. "

" Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. "

" The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. "

" Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. "

" Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. "

" By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. "

" It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. "

" Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. "

" The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. "

" Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. "

" Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. "

" 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 chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. "

" It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. "

" Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. "

" Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. "

" These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. "

" This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. "