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.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

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.

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

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.