...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.

There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.