A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.

The three values which men had held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism — as a cultural power — died at the time of the Renaissance. Collectivism — as a political ideal — died in World War II. As to altruism — it has never been alive. It is the poison of death in the blood of Western civilization, and men survived it only to the extent to which they neither believed nor practiced it.