The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
