Most American men are repressors.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word "I," could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.

Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.