Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.

I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.