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

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.