Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it ….

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, fina….

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any..

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one..

Violence is an expression of impotence..

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox..

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is..

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be to allow the people to share a….

His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass pov….

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ru….

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil..

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same..

It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It ca….

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error..

every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought..

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be mood….

Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' -….

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism..

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history..

Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true signi….