I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it rea….

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think..

The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation o….

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company..

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular cho….

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coerc….

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious..

Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human situation, in which the world is creat….

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake..

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford..

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases ….

[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the l….

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core..

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved..

The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative mac….

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely t….

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to ….

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny..

This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never been seen….

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to….

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the ….