When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.