His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.
We are free to change the world and start something new in it.
Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.
There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.
The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.