A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
