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

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

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 judgment.

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.