Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

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.

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.