Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

If we begin to say, "Well, maybe we can cope better with the Russians if we also transform ourselves into a managed society, if we, as somebody put it the other day, train our soldiers to be like the Turks, who have fought so bravely in Korea, if we are willing to change our whole way of life for the sake of so-called "survival," then I think we do exactly that which threatens our survival.