The individual who has been liberated by reason is always running head-on into a world, a society, whose past in the shape of 'prejudices' has a great deal of power; he is forced to learn that past reality is also a reality.

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

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

One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.