All great movements, every vigorous impulse that a community may feel, become perverted and distorted as time passes.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

Just as it is impossible to know when a swimming fish is drinking water, so it is impossible to find out when a government servant is stealing money.

They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul.

The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.