Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.