All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.

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.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.