There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

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