Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.