The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.

Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less voluntary surrender. In both cases, the result of the elimination of individual autonomy is - automatism. Both Faith and Terror reduce the human entity to a formula that can be manipulated at will.

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.