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.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men…. There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity.

It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.

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

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.