Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core..

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strengt….

The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the en….

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against ….

Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts t….

And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is ….

Thought and action must never part company..

You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil is what always appears in the form of a ….

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it..

the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which….

the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enu….

For the lesson of such stories [of resistance to Nazi atrocities] is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under cond….

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though ….

They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape..

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fic….

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outs….

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be ju….

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter..

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting u….

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.

every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Th….