It Lies In Human Nature

None Of Us Know All The Potentialities That Slumber In The Spirit Of The Population, Or All The Ways In Which That Population Can Surprise Us When There Is The Right Interplay Of Events.

It's Not True That You Should First Think Up An Idea For A Better World And Only Then "put It Into Practice," But, Rather, Through The Fact Of Your Existence In The World, You Create The Idea Or Manifest It - Create It, As It Were, From The "material Of The World," Articulate It In The "language Of The World."

Let Us Admit That Most Of Us Writers Feel An Essential Aversion To Politics. By Taking Such A Position, However, We Accept The Perverted Principle Of Specialization, According To Which Some Are Paid To Write About The Horrors Of The World And Human Responsibility And Others To Deal With Those Horrors And Bear The Human Responsibility For Them.

A Human Action Becomes Genuinely Important When It Springs From The Soil Of A Clearsighted Awareness Of The Temporality And The Ephemerality Of Everything Human. It Is Only This Awareness That Can Breathe Any Greatness Into An Action.

I Am Convinced That We Will Never Build A Democratic State Based On Rule Of Law If We Do Not At The Same Time Build A State That Is-regardless Of How Unscientific This May Sound To The Ears Of A Political Scientist-humane, Moral, Intellectual And Spiritual, And Cultural.