The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opini….

The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers..

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a ma….

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is a….

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully..

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity..

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength..

All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming ….

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life..

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know..

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists..

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murde….

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak..

When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutr….

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does ….

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations..

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you..

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves..

We cannot hate those who we despise..

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head..