Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism.

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.