I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of sta….

Thought and action must never part company..

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though ….

According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of s….

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against ….

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless..

Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses, dispossessed by industrial soci….

The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the en….

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the ….

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outs….

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality..

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps th….

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core..

Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are ….

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it..

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strengt….

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion..

It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of c….

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.

For the lesson of such stories [of resistance to Nazi atrocities] is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under cond….

Kant ... stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge ... to make room for faith," but all he had "denied" was knowledge of things that a….