Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too; Each different path brings other ends in view

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

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man, and a few varieties of ants and rats.

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

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.

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.