There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.