Quotes

  • 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.

  • …freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails, the other dies.

  • Nothing is clearer in history than the adoption by successful rebels of the methods they were accustoms to condemn in the forces they deposed.

  • In every age, the individual instincts are more powerful than the social instincts. The individual instincts are those that protect the individual for survival.

  • The definition of sin…is the overcoming of the social by the individual. … taking your glasses off your nose is not a sin.

  • The word “sin” is relevant only in the context of an individual against a group, and his individualistic instincts versus his group impulses.