It is not fools that I seek to address.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

I don’t approve of religion.

I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.