We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.

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

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.