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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
We all carry fault within.
Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.
Every thought is an afterthought.
where everybody is guilty, nobody is.
Violence is an expression of impotence.
Thought and action must never part company.
To think and to be fully alive are the same.
Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.
every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.
Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
For excellence, the presence of others is always required.
The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.
Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!
We are free to change the world and start something new in it.
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all.
To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.
Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.
There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.
It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent
The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.
I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.
Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.
The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.
the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
