Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.

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

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.