A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.

To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.