There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.