War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

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.

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.

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

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.