The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are extreme about, but that you are "extreme" - i.e., consistent).

Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.