We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

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.