When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.