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

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.