Man Is In Fact Nailed Down -

Sober Perseverance Is More Effective Than Enthusiastic Emotions, Which Are All Too Capable Of Being Transferred, With Little Difficulty, To Something Different Each Day.

A Genuinely Fundamental And Hopeful Improvement In "systems" Cannot Happen Without A Significant Shift In Human Consciousness.

Whether All Is Really Lost Or Not Depends Entirely On Whether Or Not I Am Lost.

A State That Denies Its Citizens Their Basic Rights Becomes A Danger To Its Neighbors As Well: Internal Arbitrary Rule Will Be Reflected In Arbitrary External Relations. The Suppression Of Public Opinion, The Abolition Of Public Competition For Power And Its Public Exercise Opens The Way For The State Power To Arm Itself In Any Way It Sees Fit.... A State That Does Not Hesitate To Lie To Its Own People Will Not Hesitate To Lie To Other States.

Communism Was Overthrown By Life, By Thought, By Dignity.