Who said “Our blight is ideologies -- they are the long-expected Antichrist!”?

“Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.”

“What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons -- reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.”

“Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.”

“There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.”

“Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.”

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”

“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.”

“The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”