Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

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

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.

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