Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, etc. are far from absolute, and that the good life is compounded of half measures, compromises, lesser evils, and gropings toward the perfect. The rejection of approximations and the insistence on absolutes are the manifestation of a nihilism that loathes freedom, tolerance, and equity.

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.