“Don’t forget that pure democracy is a form of collectivism – it readily sacrifices individual rights to majority wishes. Since it involves no constitutional bill of rights, or at least, no working and effective one, the majority-of-the-moment can and does…

“True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.” Felix Emmanuel Schelling,…

“Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.” Baruch Spinoza, (1632-1677) Dutch philosopher of Sephardi Portuguese origin. Source: cited in Atlantic Monthly, January 1955. Source Reference Baruch Spinoza Quote

“The businessman’s tool is values; the bureucrat’s  tool is fear.” Ayn Rand, [Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum] (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. Source Reference Ayn Rand Quote

“Communism, avowedly secularistic and materialistic, has no place for God. This I could never accept,… I strongly disagreed with Communism’s ethical relativism… there are no fixed, immutable principles; consequently, almost anything—force, violence, murder, lying—is a justifiable means to the ‘millennial’…

“If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Naziism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.” Paul Bede Johnson, (1928-) English journalist, popular historian,…