It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

A tearless heart is a callous heart.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Never let your Enemies become your Advocates.” by A. K. Hasan

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

In order to expose a system though, you need whistleblowers.

The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.