We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.