In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.