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"Modern Americans tend to think social benefits are the product of such human contrivances as huge, complicated bureaucracies and mountains of legal paperwork. But that is certainly not true. Those things are merely the overhead costs of social control in unstable, degenerate social environments, and those costs often greatly exceed any resulting social benefits."
"People with strong moral feelings do the right things because that is what makes them feel good. People without strong moral feelings, but with strong prosthetic consciences, do the right things because failing to do so makes them feel guilty. And, for most practical purposes, as long as people know which way is "up" and do the right things, the difference doesn't matter very much."
"Odilogy may be confused with morality by some people because negative emotions are usually felt much more strongly than positive emotions by morally-immature people – people who often make such foolish, childish mistakes as assuming the strength of an emotion is a measure of its moral validity, or thinking anything that makes them feel angry must be immoral."
"Weapons of mass destruction have once again made human extinction – as a direct result of immoral human behavior – a very real possibility. And any thoughtful person, even without a real understanding of the basis of natural morality, can see how that kind of immoral behavior, which may once have seemed to serve good individualistic or nationalistic purposes, has now become a threat to the personal survival of everyone in the world."
"If tyranny is the prerequisite and justification for democracy, the possibility of world-wide democracy seems even more hopeless. Any attempt by one national faction of humanity to impose such tyranny on all of humanity today would most likely be fatal for all of humanity."
"America's great big-government social experiments of the past century were failures as great as the small-government experiments of the previous century. And, unfortunately, they failed so badly they discredited not just the notion of benevolent big government but just about every other possibility of beneficial social order as well."
"What made America's frontier and small-town way of life so admirable was its moral superiority. And, yes, one of the admirable features of moral superiority is its assumption of equality. But the best assurance of a community's moral superiority is not membership equality. The only good assurance is voluntary membership."
"Many Americans still cling to an ideal of some higher form of "natural" justice which, by transcending political purposes, might actually be able to improve a degenerate social order or, failing that, even become a substitute for social order. But we know the search for such an ideal form of justice as an end in itself has been going on in obnoxious societies for many centuries in many places, without much success."
"The political "ideology of equity" did eventually challenge many of the simplistic assumptions of the ideology of equality. But it did nothing to restore the traditional American ideal of community self-government. As an even more progressive democratic ideology, it just went on to attack and destroy the American ideals of family and individual self-ownership as well."
"Many Americans wonder why a social model that served humanity so well for so many hundreds of thousands of years, and still has so much natural veracity, seems to have become so vulnerable to perversion and subversion in the modern world. And Americans are especially perplexed by accusations that they are responsible for much of that subversion in other countries."
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