To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.