No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury-the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.