Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.