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

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

To escape death, she'd become death.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.