Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.

It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.