He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.

A free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage on success-sufferi ng is not a claim check, and its relief is not the goal of existence-man is not a sacrificial animal on anyone’s altar nor for anyone’s cause-life is not one huge hospital.

But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.