It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

Those who feel guilty are afraid; and those who are afraid somehow feel guilty. To the onlooker, too, the fearful seem guilty.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent its leaking out at a certain point, with the likely result that it will leak out at some other point.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.