If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses. He cannot escape the mass; but he can draw between himself and that mass an invisible curtain, a screen, on which the mass will see projected the mirage of some politics, while the real politics are being made behind it.

We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.