What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.