Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'