Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

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.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

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