The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.