Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity.

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.

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

Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have a worse record to show in these sciences than in almost any scientific endeavor.

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

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

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.