I can’t compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I’ll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.
Get the hell out of my way!
Do not let your fire go out.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man.
I’m not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.
If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.
Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should be private property-by the right of those who apply the knowledge and effort.
The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.
It is not fools that I seek to address.
Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.
A man doesn’t borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn’t borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.