In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.