To the old, the new is usually bad news.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his own eyes the cruel misery inside the Soviet promised land. It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger, nor disheartened by obstacles, nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.