He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object...Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life. In compliance with the dishonesty that dominates today's intellectual field, they call themselves "pro-life".

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.