Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

Thought and action must never part company.

As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.