The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.

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.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.