If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind of others or the moral degenerate who grants to others the right to force his mind.

An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.

A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues-by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.