Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

[The designated or chosen leader tries to] articulate and justify the resentment dammed up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breathtaking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages the world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.