Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an individual; it belongs to a group and remains in existence only so long as the group keeps together. When we say of somebody that he is 'in power' we actually refer to his being empowered by a certain number of people to act in their name. The moment the group, from which the power originated to begin with ... disappears, 'his power' also vanishes.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

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

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.