In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.