Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

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

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.