None of us who lived close to her perceived that she was the one righteous person without whom, as the saying goes, no city can stand. Nor the world.

... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.

... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!

The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative.

... any country that is not careful can be seized.

... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces.

It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.

Leave it to eternity to decide.

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.