Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.