The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.