Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

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

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

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all.

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable.