We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."