Better Not Read Books In

Self-righteousness Is The Inevitable Fruit Of Simple Moral Judgments.

The Scientific Observer Of The Realm Of Nature Is In A Sense Naturally And Inevitably Disinterested. At Least, Nothing In The Natural Scene Can Arouse His Bias. Furthermore, He Stands Completely Outside Of The Natural So That His Mind, Whatever His Limitations, Approximates Pure Mind. The Observer Of The Realm Of History Cannot Be Disinterested In The Same Way, For Two Reasons: First, He Must Look At History From Some Locus In History; Secondly, He Is To A Certain Degree Engaged In Its Ideological Conflicts.

All Social Cooperation On A Larger Scale Than The Most Intimate Social Group Requires A Measure Of Coercion.

[there Is] An Increasing Tendency Among Modern Men To Imagine Themselves Ethical Because They Have Delegated Their Vices To Larger And Larger Groups.

No Nation Can Say, 'we Will Capitulate To Tyranny Rather Than Accept A Speculative Fate - To Accept An Absolute Fate In Alternative To A Speculative One' - No Nation Can Do That.