Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.