"Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular s...
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"The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
"In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
"Man is an end in himself.
"Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to...
"Charity must be voluntary.
"I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achieveme...
"Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own exis...
"Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
"A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.
"Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means ...
"America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal i...
"A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.
"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of histor...