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

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.

every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.