Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.