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.

I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his work to their wishes. They need him, but they do not order a house just to give him commission. Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.