Truth And Love Will Overcome Lies And

Self-confidence Is Not Pride. Just The Contrary: Only A Person Or A Nation That Is Self-confident, In The Best Sense Of The Word, Is Capable Of Listening To Others, Accepting Them As Equals, Forgiving Its Enemies And Regretting Its Own Guilt.

It Cannot Suffice To Invent New Machines, New Regulations, New Institutions. It Is Necessary To Change And Improve Our Understanding Of The True Purpose Of What We Are And What We Do In The World. Only Such A New Understanding Will Allow Us To Develop New Models Of Behavior, New Scales Of Values And Goals, And Thereby Invest The Global Regulations, Treaties And Institutions With A New Spirit And Meaning.

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."

Because The Regime Is Captive To Its Own Lies, It Must Falsify Everything. It Falsifies The Past. It Falsifies The Present, And It Falsifies The Future. It Falsifies Statistics. It Pretends Not To Possess An Omnipotent And Unprincipled Police Apparatus. It Pretends To Respect Human Rights. It Pretends To Prosecute No One. It Pretends To Fear Nothing. It Pretends To Pretend Nothing.

If One Were Required To Increase The Dramatic Seriousness Of His Face In Relation To The Seriousness Of The Problems He Had To Confront, He Would Quickly Petrify And Become His Own Statue.