The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities for escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

...no bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there …

The idea of painless, non-threatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence.

The authorities are those who are clever, strong and smart, but if the process gets out of control of the commanders, it becomes something negative.