There Are No Inevitabilities In History

At Some Time In Their Careers, Most Good Historians Itch To Write A History Of The World, Endeavor To Discover What Makes Humanity The Most Destructive And Creative Of Species.

The Urge To Distribute Wealth Equally, And Still More The Belief That It Can Be Brought About By Political Action, Is The Most Dangerous Of All Popular Emotions. It Is The Legitimation Of Envy, Of All The Deadly Sins The One Which A Stable Society Based On Consensus Should Fear The Most. The Monster State Is A Source Of Many Evils; But It Is, Above All, An Engine Of Envy.

A Stalin Functionary Admitted, Innocent People Were Arrested: Naturally - Otherwise No One Would Be Frightened. If People Were Arrested Only For Specific Misdemeanours, All The Others Would Feel Safe And So Become Ripe For Treason.

It Takes Less Than A Decade For Today's Luxury To Become A Universal Necessity.

The Richness And Variety, And Indeed The Advance, Of Our Culture Depend Upon The Continuation Of This Conflict [between Conservatives And Radicals], Which Is Deeply Rooted In Human Nature.