The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

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

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.

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

Factual truth is always related to other people: it concerns events and circumstances in which many are involved; it is established by witnesses and depends upon testimony; it exists only to the extent that it is spoken about, even if it occurs in the domain of privacy. It is political by nature.