In Most Of History, Societies Have Not

I Need Not To Be Afraid Of The Void. The Void Is Part Of My Person. I Need To Enter Consciously Into It. To Try To Escape From It Is To Try To Live A Lie. It Is Also To Cease To Be. My Acceptance Of Despair And Emptiness Constitutes My Being; To Have The Courage To Accept Despair Is To Be.

Our Capacity For Self-deception Has No Known Limits

No Great, Inspiring Culture Of The Future Can Be Built Upon The Moral Principle Of Relativism. For At Its Bottom Such A Culture Holds That Nothing Is Better Than Anything Else, And That All Things Are In Themselves Equally Meaningless. Except For The Fragments Of Faith (in Progress, In Compassion, In Conscience, In Hope) To Which It Still Clings, Illegitimately, Such A Culture Teaches Every One Of Its Children That Life Is A Tale Told By An Idiot, Signifying Nothing.

It Is Not Possible In This Culture Today To Hold Up To Public Pillory And Ridicule Any Group - Whether Blacks, American Indians, Women, Homosexuals, Poles, Or Any Of A Number Of Other Groups That Have Been Discriminated Against In The Past. However, The One Group You Can Hold Up To Public Mockery And Pillory Without Fear Of Reprisal Is Evangelical Christians.

In The Federalist, James Madison Called The Rage For Equality 'a Wicked Project.' People Differ And Rewards Differ-that's The Essence Of Both Liberty And Justice. No Nation That Rewards Effort, Talent, Inventiveness And Luck Can Even Pretend To Cherish Equal Outcomes. In An Inventive And Dynamic Society, Equal (even Relatively Equal) Incomes Can Be Achieved Only By Abandoning Liberty For Tyranny.