Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

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

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.