Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.