General Sayings

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed.

The individual is a passive vessel to be filled by the environment.

The state is the very organ of social thought.

The bureaucracy is the means of transforming social action into rationally organized action.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

I have seen from my window the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.

The Gulag Archipelago would not have existed without the cowardice of the Russian people.

The English are not very inventive; they are more imitative. They have not produced great artists, great painters, great musicians.

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity.

I'm not anti-American, but I'm certainly not pro-American.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her...

It is not necessary for the public superego to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

I suffered two grave accidents in my life... One in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

I don't sing to sound like nobody. I sing to sound like Ray Charles.

I believe the power to make money is a gift from God... to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.

I don't think any sport should take itself so seriously that it can't laugh at itself.