(Mortimer Adler Quotes) An adequate reform of public education in our school system cannot be accomplished by anything like a quick fix. We suspect that anyone who thinks otherwise cannot fully understand the shape of an adequate reform or all the obstacles to be overcome in achieving it. The books to be read should not be limited to those written in English.... Instead it should be devoted to the great works of...

So long as power remains privately concentrated, everybody, everybody, has to be committed to one overriding goal: and that’s to make sure that the rich folk are happy — because unless they are, nobody else is going to get anything. So if you’re a homeless person sleeping in the streets of Manhattan, let’s say, your first concern must be that the guys in the mansions are happy — because if they’re happy, then they’ll...

(Ayn Rand Quotes) Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. In a capitalist society, all human relationships are...

Captain James Cooke arrived on Australian shores in the year 1770. After charting the east coast, he officiated that Australia was uninhabited, desolate and belonged to no one, identifying Australia as terra nullius and acquiring it authoritatively for King George III . The savages, as Captain Cooke elucidated, were primitive, uneducated and uncivilised, roaming peripatetically, consuming what the land bared, and...

Communism does not destroy and cannot in principle destroy social differences among the people. It changes only their forms, leading social contrasts to the monstrous sizes, which are at least not inferior to those in the West. Communism does not eliminate the inequality between humanity, the social injustice, exploitation of humanity and other evils of society — communism merely changes their form and gives birth t...