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.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

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.

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

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

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