The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

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.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it is our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.