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

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.

For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man. History is not yet done with its exploration of the limits and meanings of human nature.

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

Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist