Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.

And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

We all carry fault within.