Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.