If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.