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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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