Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.