- On love: Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
- The calamity of the rightless is not that they are deprived of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but that they no longer belong to any community whatsoever. Their plight is not that they are not equal before the law, but that no law exists for them.
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, the reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
- 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.
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.
- Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
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