No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.