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.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

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

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.