The Rub Is That The Pursuit Of

Anybody Looking For A Quiet Life Has Picked The Wrong Century To Born In.

On A Scale Personal Enough To Be Felt By All, But Big Enough To Be Symbolic, The Two Irreconcilable Faiths Of Our Time - Communism And Freedom - Came To Grips In The Persons Of Two Conscious And Resolute Men.

The Rub Is That The Pursuit Of Happiness, As An End In Itself, Tends Automatically, And Widely, To Be Replaced By The Pursuit Of Pleasure With A Consequent General Softening Of The Fibers Of Will, Intelligence, Spirit.

I See In Communism The Focus Of The Concentrated Evil Of Our Time.

Crime, Violence, Infamy Are Not Tragedy. Tragedy Occurs When A Human Soul Awakes And Seeks, In Suffering And Pain, To Free Itself From Crime, Violence, Infamy, Even At The Cost Of Life. The Struggle Is The Tragedy - Not Defeat Or Death. That Is Why The Spectacle Of Tragedy Has Always Filled Men, Not With Despair, But With A Sense Of Hope And Exaltation.