Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.