Occupation: Philosopher Birth: September 18, 1917 Death: June 16, 1960
Politics is activity in relation to power.
Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the ….
Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an oppositio….
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.
Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's yo….
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not unde….
The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.
For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves..
The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and ….
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics..
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force..
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which make….
The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.
Man as a pure animal does not exist.