"Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear."
"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."
"Man is an end in himself."
"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"
"He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see."
"Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."