A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

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

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

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

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.