The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

The cliche organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over t…

But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning tha…

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.