Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others.

We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles --whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled --is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation.

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge. . .