I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.

The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.