Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that brought them into being. Independent existence marks the work of art as a product of making; utter dependence upon further acts to keep it in existence marks the state as a product of action.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

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.