Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace.

She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?

I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not.

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.