The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

The percentage of mentally disturbed people in the United States is very high. From the time the American gets up in the morning, he feels as if someone is trying to influence his will in some way: he is a person with a thousand pressures. The Americans live under a great strain ... and have great feelings of frustration.

I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.