He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.