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

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. 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. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement