When A Man Speaks Of The Need

Liberty For Wolves Is Death To The Lambs.

The Notion Of The Perfect Whole, The Ultimate Solution In Which All Good Things Coexist, Seems To Me Not Merely Unobtainable--that Is A Truism--but Conceptually Incoherent. ......some Among The Great Goods Cannot Live Together. That Is A Conceptual Truth. We Are Doomed To Choose, And Every Choice May Entail An Irreparable Loss.

Lenin Could Listen So Intently That He Exhausted The Speaker.

Liberty And Equality, Spontaneity And Security, Happiness And Knowledge, Mercy And Justice - All These Are Ultimate Human Values, Sought For Themselves Alone; Yet When They Are Incompatible, They Cannot All Be Attained, Choices Must Be Made, Sometimes Tragic Losses Accepted In The Pursuit Of Some Preferred Ultimate End.

When A Man Speaks Of The Need For Realism One May Be Sure That This Is Always The Prelude To Some Bloody Deed.