There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

I am a man who does not exist for others.

While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.