There Can Be No Doubt That Distrust

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.

The Salvation Of This Human World Lies Nowhere Else Than In The Human Heart, In The Human Power To Reflect, In Human Meekness And Human Responsibility.

People Who Live In The Post-totalitarian System Know Only Too Well That The Question Of Whether One Or Several Political Parties Are In Power, And How These Parties Define And Label Themselves, Is Of Far Less Importance Than The Question Of Whether Or Not It Is Possible To Live Like A Human Being.

Whether All Is Really Lost Or Not Depends Entirely On Whether Or Not I Am Lost.

Sober Perseverance Is More Effective Than Enthusiastic Emotions, Which Are All Too Capable Of Being Transferred, With Little Difficulty, To Something Different Each Day.