where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never been seen before. The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. And I hope that thinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down.

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.