Kallocain

‘How can it be, that we search for something that doesn’t exist? How can it be that we are sick unto death, when we’re completely well, when all is as it should be …’

The sacred and necessary foundation of the State’s existence is our mutual well-founded mistrust of each other. Those who cast suspicion on that foundation cast suspicion on the State.’

We may be rather sure of one thing – the last remnants of our private lives are now gone.’

From individualism to collectivism – from isolation to community, that was the path that had been followed by this gigantic and sacred organism in which the individual was merely a cell with no other significance than to serve the organism as a whole.

When people say: I can’t manage, they mean: I can’t manage to live.

One can talk of ‘love’ as an outdated, romantic concept, but I am afraid it exists all the same, and right from the outset it contains an element that is indescribably painful.

To put it briefly: in a way I sometimes felt that I was freer than I would be in freedom