By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

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

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.