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.

Man is a luxury-loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.

Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

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

A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.