Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.

Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.

We are made kind by being kind.