Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.