There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

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.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.