There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.