Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

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

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.