Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death.

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

There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

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

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.