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

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

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

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

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.

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

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