Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

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

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.