The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

Every thought is an afterthought.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

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.

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.