And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.

You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.