We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.