Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.

Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: 'Account Overdrawn.'

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.