The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the feeling that by the possession of some potent doctrine, infallible leader or some new technique they have access to a source of irresistible power.