Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.