The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.