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

Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.