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

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

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.