The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always be identified within specific historical popular collectivities.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Indifference is the dead weight of history.