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 passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

[The designated or chosen leader tries to] articulate and justify the resentment dammed up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breathtaking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages the world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

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

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.