Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

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

where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

We all carry fault within.

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