Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.