It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

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

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.