Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.

By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?

The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains. Such is the nature of the 'competition' between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of 'exploitation' for which you have damned the strong.

Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.