When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

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

Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value.

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.