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.

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.

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

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.