 Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. |
| 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. |
| The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. |
| The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. |
| There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. |
| 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. Topics: Love Is |
| 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 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. |
| We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. |
| Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. |
| These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. |
