If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant

Man as a pure animal does not exist

Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a fetish of sport and professes eroticism as a way of life. A perverted and insane pictorial art, lewd exhibitionistic dancing and jungle music form the spiritual norm of this sector of America's youth.