The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

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 youth.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

If We see in Everything something Positive a smile wil sooner be There then a tear,

Letting go of someone you loved wasn't hard. There was no word for what it was, because even if you didn't let them go they were still gone.

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

If you look at my columns I precisely said we have to avoid that. That it's important not to stereotype [Donald] Trump voters.

Failure instructs, failure improves. Failure shouldn't deter you.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.