People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.