Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

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.

A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of action--for choosing the practical means of implementing a society’s basic principles. But those principles are not determined by vote.

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.

Every loneliness is a pinnacle

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.