It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.