The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

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

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.