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

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

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.

There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial for political offenses, the nationalization or expropriation of private property, and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.