Quotes
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If we knew our fellow men thoroughly, we would select 30% of them whose combined ability would equal that of all the rest. Life and history do precisely that, with the sublime injustice reminiscent of Calvin’s God.
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…freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails, the other dies.
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Nothing is clearer in history than the adoption by successful rebels of the methods they were accustoms to condemn in the forces they deposed.
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In every age, the individual instincts are more powerful than the social instincts. The individual instincts are those that protect the individual for survival.
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The definition of sin…is the overcoming of the social by the individual. … taking your glasses off your nose is not a sin.
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The word “sin” is relevant only in the context of an individual against a group, and his individualistic instincts versus his group impulses.