Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the World or observation of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

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

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.