Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.