To think and to be fully alive are the same.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time