My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.

Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary, works on the emotions, tries to violate logical considerations by rousing a sense of personal interest and to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts.

Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.

It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.