Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.

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