Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.

Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough), but when slavery became an institution in which some men were 'born' free and others slave, when it was forgotten that it was man who had deprived his fellow-men of freedom, and when the sanction for the crime was attributed to nature.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.