The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.

Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.

Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.