To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.