The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.

The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.