It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy : capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.