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

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence. The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers.

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

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.