The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.