Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

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

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.