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

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.

We all carry fault within.

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

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

By assigning his political rights to the state the individual also delegates his social responsibilities to it: he asks the state to relieve him of the burden of caring for the poor precisely as he asks for protection against criminals. The difference between pauper and criminal disappears - both stand outside society.

Violence is an expression of impotence.