You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.