The Trouble With Academics And Commentators Is

Out Of The Crooked Timber Of Humanity, Nothing Completely Straight Was Ever Made

All Forms Of Tampering With Human Beings, Getting At Them, Shaping Them Against Their Will To Your Own Pattern, All Thought Control And Conditioning Is, Therefore, A Denial Of That In Men Which Makes Them Men And Their Values Ultimate.

When One Is Engaged In A Desperate Defense Of One's World And Its Values, Nothing Can Be Given Away, Any Breach In The Walls Might Be Fatal, Every Point Must Be Defended To The Death.

The Trouble With Academics And Commentators Is That They Care More About Whether Ideas Are Interesting Than Whether They Are True.

I Wish My Life And Decisions To Depend Upon Myself, Not On External Forces Of Whatever Kind. I Wish To Be The Instrument Of My Own, Not Other Men's, Acts Of Will. I Wish To Be The Subject, Not An Object...i Wish To Be Somebody, Not Nobody; A Doer - Deciding, Not Being Decided For, Slef-directed And Not Acted Upon By External Nature Or By Other Men As If I Were A Thing, Or An Animal, Or A Slave Incapable Of Playing A Human Role, That Is, Of Conceiving Goals And Policies Of My Own And Realizing Them.