Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless." "Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?" "No. But I enjoyed it." "The music?" "No. The way you listened to it.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.