Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffer… - Oscar Wilde

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is. Private property has crushed true Individualism, and set up an Individualism that is false. It has debarred one part of the community from being individual by starving them. It has debarred the other part of the community from being individual by putting them on the wrong road and encumbering them.