"The desire for some form of superiority is common to almost all energetic men.
No social system which attempts to thwart the emergence of superiority can be stable, since the lazy majority will never be a match for the energetic minority "
"In the conquests of modern industrialism,
the four secondary passions have been almost wholly dominant,
since those who directed them had no need to fear hunger or thirst.
It is the potency of vanity and love of power
that gives hope for the industrial future of Soviet Russia,
since it enables the Communist State
to enlist in its service men whose abilities might give them
vast wealth in a capitalistic society"
