The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind.

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

To change everything, simply change your attitude.