Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

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

Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.