The Mind Is Like The Stomach. It

Like All Predatory Or Parasitic Institutions, Its First Instinct Is That Of Self-preservation. All Its Enterprises Are Directed First Towards Preserving Its Own Life, And, Second, Towards Increasing Its Own Power And Enlarging The Scope Of Its Own Activity. For The Sake Of This It Will, And Regularly Does, Commit Any Crime Which Circumstances Make Expedient.

Driving Jobholders Out Of Office Is Like The Old Discredited Policy Of Driving Prostitutes Out Of Town. Their Places Are Immediately Taken By Others Who Are Precisely Like Them.

It Is Unfortunately None Too Well Understood That, Just As The State Has No Money Of Its Own, So It Has No Power Of Its Own. All The Power It Has Is What Society Gives It, Plus What It Confiscates From Time To Time On One Pretext Or Another, There Is No Other Source From Which State Power Can Be Drawn. Therefore Every Assumption Of State Power, Whether By Gift Or Seizure Leaves Society With So Much Less Power; There Is Never, Nor Can Be, Any Strengthening Of State Power Without A Corresponding And Roughly Equivalent Depletion Of Social Power.

There's Only One Way To Improve Society. Present It With A Single Improved Unit: Yourself.

Assuming That Man Has A Distinct Spiritual Nature, A Soul, Why Should It Be Thought Unnatural That Under Appropriate Conditions Of Maladjustment, His Soul Might Die Before His Body Does; Or That His Soul Might Die Without His Knowing It?