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.

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

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.