Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.

One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas - justice or progress or happiness of future generations... or emancipation of a nation or race or class... this is the belief that somewhere... there is a final solution.

When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.

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