The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

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

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. If some "pacifist" society renounced the retaliatory use of force, it would be left helplessly at the mercy of the first thug who decided to be immoral. Such a society would achieve the opposite of its intention: instead of abolishing evil, it would encourage and reward it.