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.

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

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.