Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? Nothing can make self-immolation proper. Nothing can give them the right to turn men into sacrificial animals. Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.

Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.