Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

Exercise to live. Never live to exercise.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

Sometimes you have to admit that a relationship can't be fixed. That no matter how much you want to, you can't trust some people.

The Taj is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening and golden when the moon shines.

The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.