The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.