Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.