It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

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

To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.

every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.