You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.