It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind.