History Is A Priori Amoral; It Has

To Sell Oneself For Thirty Pieces Of Silver Is An Honest Transaction; But To Sell Oneself To One S Own Conscience Is To Abandon Mankind.

In The Social Equation, The Value Of A Single Life Is Nil; In The Cosmic Equation, It Is Infinite... Not Only Communism, But Any Political Movement Which Implicitly Relies On Purely Utilitarian Ethics, Must Become A Victim To The Same Fatal Error. It Is A Fallacy As Naïve As A Mathematical Teaser, And Yet Its Consequences Lead Straight To Goya's Disasters, To The Reign Of The Guillotine, The Torture Chambers Of The Inquisition, Or The Cellars Of The Lubianka.

Faith Is A Wondrous Thing; It Is Not Only Capable Of Moving Mountains, But Also Of Making You Believe That A Herring Is A Race Horse.

I Have Repeatedly Stressed That The Selfish Impulses Of Man Constitute A Much Less Historic Danger Than His Integrative Tendencies. To Put It In The Simplest Way: The Individual Who Indulges In An Excess Of Aggressive Self-assertiveness Incurs The Penalties Of Society-he Outlaws Himself, He Contracts Out Of The Hierarchy. The True Believer, On The Other Hand, Becomes More Closely Knit Into It; He Enters The Womb Of His Church, Or Party, Or Whatever The Social Holon To Which He Surrenders His Identity.

Somebody Once Asked Niels Bohr Why He Had A Horseshoe Hanging Above The Front Door Of His House. Surely You, A World Famous Physicist, Can't Really Believe That Hanging A Horseshoe Above Your Door Brings You Luck? Of Course Not, Bohr Replied, But I Have Been Reliably Informed That It Will Bring Me Luck Whether I Believe In It Or Not.