It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person.

Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for “intelligent disagreement.” I found neither. Today, I am not looking for “intelligent disagreement” any longer ... What I am looking for is intelligent agreement.

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

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

There are two side to every issue.

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.