Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

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

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.