Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.