To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure. Hustling thus tends to produce uniformity. And in the deliberate fusing of individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.