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

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.

To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.

Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.