What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.

Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation.

The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

Every State is a dictatorship.

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.