To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.

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

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

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

There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.

We are free to change the world and start something new in it.