All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

The principal cause of war is war itself.

If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.