Status Updates From Per una morale dell'ambiguità

"As we have also seen, the situation in the world is so complex that one can not fight everywhere at the same time an for everyone. In order to win an urgent victory, one has to give up the idea...of serving certain valid causes; one may even be brought to the point of fighting against them."

"He can become conscious of the real requirements of his own freedom, which can will itself only by destining itself to an open future, by seeking to extend itself by means of the freedom of others. Therefore, in any case, the freedom of other men must be respected and they must be helped to free themselves. Such a law imposes limits upon action and at the same time immediately gives it a content."

Yet it is because there are real dangers, real failures, and real earthly damnation that words like victory, wisdom, or joy have meaning. Nothing is decided in advance, and it is because man has something to lose and because he can lose, that he can also win."

"Yet it is because there are real dangers, real failures, and real earthly damnation that words like victory, wisdom, or joy have meaning. Nothing is decided in advance, and it is because man has something to lose and because he can lose, that he can also win."

"There are people who are filled with such horror at the idea of defeat that the keep themselves from doing anything. But no one would dream of this gloomy passivity as the rigumph of freedom."