The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.

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.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.