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

According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space.