Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their alters.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.