💬 Quotes

"Modern people are nothing else than 'automatons' living under the influence of auto-suggestion, who never act from their own independent initiative."

"Man is a three-brained being, but his general functioning is distributed among these three brains in such a disproportioned way that he is entirely controlled by accidental impulses."

"The misfortune of contemporary men is that they do not know how to be silent, and above all, how to think for themselves."

"The essence of human morality is based on self-calming and on the satisfaction of one's egoistic desires, which are veiled by the mask of altruism."

"Only he can be called a real man who has acquired his own 'I,' who has his own consciousness and his own individuality."

"The tax-exempt status is a public trust, and organizations must continually balance their programmatic pursuits with strict adherence to federal tax laws to maintain that privilege."

"Unrelated business taxable income (UBTI) rules are designed to ensure that tax-exempt entities do not gain an unfair competitive advantage over taxpaying commercial businesses."

"Board members have a fiduciary responsibility to oversee the organization's financial integrity, ensuring that charitable assets are not squandered or diverted for private inurement."

"Private foundations face unique regulatory hurdles, including mandatory payout requirements and excise taxes on investment income, which demand meticulous long-term planning."

"Accurate completion of Form 990 is not merely an administrative chore; it is a primary public disclosure document that scrutinizers, donors, and the IRS use to evaluate exempt compliance."

"Lobbying limits must be closely monitored under Section 501(h) elections to ensure that advocacy efforts do not inadvertently jeopardize the organization's tax-exempt standing."

"The executioner's war knew no boundaries, no diplomatic immunity, and no retirement age."

"When the established systems of justice are paralyzed by corruption, the only recourse left to a free man is personal accountability."

"Power unchecked inevitably breeds arrogance, and arrogance is the fatal flaw that exposes the beast to the blade."

"It is a grim irony that to preserve peace in the shadows, one must become more ruthless than the predators who stalk the light."

"Retaliation is never just about striking back; it is about sending an unmistakable message that the rules of engagement have changed forever."

"In the final accounting, a man is defined not by the peace he wishes for, but by the war he is willing to fight to secure it."

"It is not that the world is growing worse, any more than it is growing better; it is that it is changing with a marvellous rapidity."

"The twentieth century will be the birth-century not of a new socialism, but of a new and unprecedented phase of human development, based upon the machine."

"The country is being drained of its capable elements, the men of initiative, of enterprise, of physical vigor, leaving behind a less progressive population."