“Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor.”

“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.”

“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”

“In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.”

“Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will. ”

“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. (On giving up art to play chess)”