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.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms.