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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. "

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

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

" In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. "

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

" 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. "

" No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. "

" 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. "

" For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. "

" 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. "

" Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. "

" War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. "

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

" The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. "

" 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. "

" 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. "