There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

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

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.