Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.

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.

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.