Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.