Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

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

There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.