Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

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

Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.