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.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

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