You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.