All Central Beliefs On Human Matters Spring

But To Manipulate Men, To Propel Them Toward Goals Which You-the Social Reformers-see, But They May Not, Is To Deny Their Human Essence, To Treat Them As Objects Without Wills Of Their Own, And Therefore To Degrade Them.

The Notion Of The Perfect Whole, The Ultimate Solution In Which All Good Things Coexist, Seems To Me Not Merely Unobtainable--that Is A Truism--but Conceptually Incoherent. ......some Among The Great Goods Cannot Live Together. That Is A Conceptual Truth. We Are Doomed To Choose, And Every Choice May Entail An Irreparable Loss.

Those Who Have Ever Valued Liberty For Its Own Sake Believed That To Be Free To Choose, And Not To Be Chosen For, Is An Inalienable Ingredient In What Makes Human Beings Human.

The Very Desire For Guarantees That Our Values Are Eternal And Secure In Some Objective Heaven Is Perhaps Only A Craving For The Certainties Of Childhood Or The Absolute Values Of Our Primitive Past.

When One Is Engaged In A Desperate Defense Of One's World And Its Values, Nothing Can Be Given Away, Any Breach In The Walls Might Be Fatal, Every Point Must Be Defended To The Death.