The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.