The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

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.

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.