... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.

Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever.

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.