It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.