Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.