Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth.