Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

It is very difficult to tell the truth.

There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.