While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.