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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 hide.



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 hide.



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



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



We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.



Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.



Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power\'s disappearance.



Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.



Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.



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



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.



War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.



Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.



The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.



Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.








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