It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.