Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.
Allan BloomReason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.
Allan BloomThe sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.
Allan BloomThere is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
Allan Bloom