I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism.

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.