Darkness at Noon

by Arthur Koestler

Whoever proves right in the end must first be and do wrong. But it is only after the fact that we learn who was right to begin with. In the meantime we act on credit, in the hope of being absolved by history.

The degree of individual freedom a nation is able to attain and retain depends on the degree of its political maturity.

nation’s ability to govern itself democratically is consequently determined by how well it understands the structure and functioning of the social body as a whole.

History had a slow pulse; humans calculated in years while it calculated in generations.