The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defen… - Arnold J. Toynbee

A society, we may say, is confronted in the course of its life by a succession of problems which each member has to solve for itself as best it may. The presentation of each problem is a challenge to undergo an ordeal, and through this series of ordeals the members of the society progressively differentiate themselves from one another.

The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults...

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.