"

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

"

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such disc...more

"

In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the same way an...more

"

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now...more

"

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...more

"

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...more

"

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is...more

"

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...more

"

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...more

"

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

"

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.