We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less voluntary surrender. In both cases, the result of the elimination of individual autonomy is - automatism. Both Faith and Terror reduce the human entity to a formula that can be manipulated at will.