A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.