1. “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.”
2. “Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.”
3. “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
4. “Courage is indispensable because in politics not life but the world is at stake.”
5. “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
6. “We are free to change the world and start something new in it.”
7. “No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.”
8. “The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
9. “The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.”
10. “Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.”
11. “There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.”
12. “War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.”
13. “Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.”
14. “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
15. “In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.”
