Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.