There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. ….

Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the la….

There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is f….

For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples bu….

Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an individual; it belongs to a group and….

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being..

If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exerci….

The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live..

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so….

There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but ….

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous..

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival..

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate..

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves..

The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of argument at the expens….

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time..

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to ….

It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alterna….

Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not..

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the ….

Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes th….