...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.