Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.

It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

If there is no personal God, everything is permissablel, and if God exists, everthing is possible.

There is no such thing as a historical fatality there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when action was still possible.

Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine

For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an “evolutionary” difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect

I've always longed to have a patch of personal wilderness. Of waist-high grass entwined with wildflowers through which I can prance

When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.

If people knew what they had to do to be successful most people wouldn't.

An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

Men aren't as strong and capable as we are. We're machines.

Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don’t become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon