Who said “None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or…”?

“The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.”

“Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.”

“What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.”

“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.”

“The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.”

“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”

“There's always something suspicious about an intellectual on the winning side.”

“True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?”

“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”

“Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surprising.”

“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.”