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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "