In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole.

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.