Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.