Most American men are repressors.

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.