A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.