We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.