Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.

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

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

The hypocrite’s crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of pseudo-scholars.

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

Compared with the mobilization of all opponents to the government as such, the capturing of lower middle-class votes was a temporary phenomenon.