A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its quality of rising into sight from some darker ground which must remain hidden if it is not to lose its depth in a very real, non-subjective sense.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.