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.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon ... Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an individual; it belongs to a group and remains in existence only so long as the group keeps together. When we say of somebody that he is 'in power' we actually refer to his being empowered by a certain number of people to act in their name. The moment the group, from which the power originated to begin with ... disappears, 'his power' also vanishes.