Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.