Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.