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.

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

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

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.

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

As long as the belief is: we need suffering to grow, the world will be suffering and the belief will be limiting.

Why am I so weak, why do I care so much?What is holding on, what's wrong with me..

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road.

I'm a heart-on-the-sleeves kind of person.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

Here is the reality - as I've been saying for longer than I can remember, Scott Walker is a mediocre county executive who has risen far beyond his talents.

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?