The Ideas That Have Lighted

I Never Thought That Others Would Take My Theories So Much More Seriously Than I Did.

Every Kind Of Peaceful Cooperation Among Men Is Primarily Based On Mutual Trust And Only Secondarily On Institutions Such As Courts Of Justice And Police.

The Foundation Of Morality Should Not Be Made Dependent On Myth Nor Tied To Any Authority Lest Doubt About The Myth Or About The Legitimacy Of The Authority Imperil The Foundation Of Sound Judgment And Action.

I Am Convinced There Is Only One Way To Eliminate These Grave Evils, Namely Through The Establishment Of A Socialist Economy, Accompanied By An Educational System Which Would Be Oriented Toward Social Goals.

The Consequence Was A Positively Fanatic [orgy Of] Freethinking Coupled With The Impression That Youth Is Being Deceived By The State Through Lies; It Was A Crushing Impression