Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon ... Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered.

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

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

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.