We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.