EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

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