It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.