Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

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

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.