However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.