Constitution: 'For the weak, beliefs are not always in line with their own personal truths, but instead they follow the path of least social resistance. Over time this reshapes the innate values nature instills within each soul into corrupt half-truths; values neither of the individual nor of a civil order, but a convoluted perversion of both. For many this makes it impossible to remain faithful to their values and yet equally impossible to escape from them. They are paralyzed with indifference and their intellectual and spiritual growth is stunted between fear and acceptance.'

Fanaticism: 'Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.'

Manners: 'Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.'

Enthusiasm: 'Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.'

The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly co…

The upshot is that the values and goals which provided a unifying center for previous centuries in the modern period no longer are cogent. We have not yet foun…

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our m…