Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.