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.

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

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

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

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.