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

Thought and action must never part company.

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth.

For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death.

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.