Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life