The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.