Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.