Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.