When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.