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.

Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.