Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his work to their wishes. They need him, but they do not order a house just to give him commission. Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange.

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head

Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.

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