No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizing that it was the only system that could make freedom, individuality and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.