The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

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.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

It's not about who's going to let me; it's about who's going to stop me.

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.

It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve' private property-with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism.