Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.