No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim the right to force the minds of others. No rational society, no co-operation, no agreement, no understanding, no discussion are possible among men who propose to substitute guns for rational persuasion.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.