I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).