Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

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

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

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

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.

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.

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

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.

Man as a pure animal does not exist.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

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

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.

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

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

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

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

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Capitalism is not an economic system but a world outlook or rather a part of a whole world outlook.

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed.

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.