Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.

We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.