I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it’s safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement.
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.
Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man’s choice.
That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.
Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt.
But Aristotle’s philosophy was the intellect’s Declaration of Independence.
The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.
And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldnt it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men.
When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.
Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.
Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man’s right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.
Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future – if mankind is to have a future.
To know one’s own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.
To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.
Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.