The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

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 judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?