every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.

the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.