I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.