אֱמוּנָה

Not least among the prerequisites for doing so is the rediscovery of virtues that torture chambers and stage-managed party conferences deprived of all meaning: honesty regarding one’s own past and present actions; untrammelled thinking, even at the point where it becomes uncomfortable; integrity, even and especially in relation to opponents. Machiavellian cunning can be useful in establishing a dictatorship, but when it comes to emancipating ourselves from exploitation and oppression, it inspires no one.