To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.