Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.