This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes..

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence..

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a spe….

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of mo….

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelev….

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live….

The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new world with those who are by….

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning..

We all carry fault within..

A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman..

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life..

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked t….

Just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's natural desires….

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future..

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun..

Kant ... discovered "the scandal of reason," that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and ….

There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of ….

The individual who has been liberated by reason is always running head-on into a world, a society, whose past in the shape of 'prejudices' has a grea….

It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and ….

I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi….

If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought….