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.

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.

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

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.