The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

I myself should also be dead already, but I am still here.

The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression