"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and to find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.'"

"You can't be a rationalist in an irrational world. It's a contradiction in terms."

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, beca…"

"The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would in fact be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would be a system of slavery …"

"Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy."