Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.