The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.

Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man's well-being is not their goal.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.