A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'

'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.