Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. 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. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.