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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Human Condition

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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