All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

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

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.