In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.