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.

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made conditions, which, their human origins notwithstanding, possess the same conditioning power as natural things. whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. this is why men, no matter what they do, are always conditioned beings. whatever enters the human world of its own accord or is drawn into it by human effort becomes part of the human condition.

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.