It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses, dispossessed by industrial society in capitalist and socialist systems, can regain property. For this reason alone, the alternative between capitalism and socialism is false-not only because neither exists anywhere in its pure state anyhow, but because we have here twins, each wearing different hats.

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

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.