the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

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

Thought and action must never part company.

... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.

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

While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.

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