Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.

Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world