Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as though it were its patrimony--unaware, alas, of the fact that Europe's declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.

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

where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

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

... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.