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

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

Language was invented to ask questions.