The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.