People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

I'm myself, not a label.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.