The So-called Lessons Of History

The So-called Lessons Of History Are For The Most Part The Rationalizations Of The Victors. History Is Written By The Survivors.

A Religion Which Has Lost Its Basic Conviction About The Interconnection Of Men With Men In Their Common Struggles For The Human, Will Never Command Belief In The Realm Of The Superhuman.

When You Are Seventeen You Aren't Really Serious.

Principles-and I Have In Mind Such Principles As States' Rights Or National Sovereignty Or The Free Market Or Pacifism-have A Way Of Drying Up While The Sap Of Life Goes Flowing In Another Direction.

We Demand Of Our Political Life Greater Certainty And Greater Perfection Than We Demand Of Our Personal Life.