the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation of power, makes the foundation of new political bodies - which up to the era of imperialism always had been the upshot of conquest - well-nigh impossible.

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.