What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'. If, in the chaos of the motives that have made you listen to the radio tonight, there was an honest, rational desire to learn what is wrong with the world, you are the man whom I wished to address. By the rules and terms of my code, one owes a rational statement to those whom it does concern and who are making an effort to know. Those who are making an effort to fail to understand me, are not a concern of mine.

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.

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

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.