The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.