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

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.