I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart’s preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!

One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies

The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.