The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.