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

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.