Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism.

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.