Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.