It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

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

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.

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.