The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim..

Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed fr….

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake..

While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment….

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving..

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal..

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise..