The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.