It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.

We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure. Hustling thus tends to produce uniformity. And in the deliberate fusing of individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.

Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."