What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.

If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend to diminish the value of our dream activity so as to render it inferior to the mental activity that takes place when we are awake, when we are exposed to these beneficial influences of surrounding reality. But how can one say that the influence of reality is exclusively beneficial. Could it not also be damaging, and could its absence not give access to qualities superior to those that we have when awake?

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.