The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people.