Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.