Communists are frustrated capitalists.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

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.