Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.