Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable.

The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.