To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.