Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

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

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.