Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.