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

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."