"The more totalitarian the system, the more it demands conformity, not just outwardly, but inwardly."

"Totalitarianism is not a political system, it is a human condition."

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

"The tragedy of the modern world is not that it has lost its sense of purpose, but that it has lost its sense of humor."

"Living in truth is not a matter of intellectual conviction, but of existential responsibility."