Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind.

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.