Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.

every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.

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.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.