modern times, of course, political ideologies have taken over the numinous function, with the face of the leader multiplied on a thousand banners. - Erik Erikson

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

No man can claim that he is absolutely in the right or that a particular thing is wrong because he thinks so, but it is wrong for him so long as that is his deliberate judgment. It is therefore meet that he should not do that which he knows to be wrong, and suffer the consequence whatever it may be.