Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

No one has a right to happiness.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

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

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.