I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.

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

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.