Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.