We Are Doomed To Choose

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.

Life May Be Seen Through Many Windows, None Of Them Necessarily Clear Or Opaque, Less Or More Distorting Than Any Of The Others.

The Intellectual Power, Honesty, Lucidity, Courage, And Disinterested Love Of The Truth Of The Most Gifted Thinkers Of The Eighteenth Century Remain To This Day Without Parallel. Their Age Is One Of The Best And Most Hopeful Episodes In The Life Of Mankind.

Freedom For The Wolves Has Often Meant Death To The Sheep.

One Must Look At What Impiety Hates, What Puts It In A Rage, What It Attacks Always, Everywhere, And With Fury - That Will Be The Truth.