Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by a free market, but by government intervention into the economy.

You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they know it, and they know they have you. Do you ever look at the people in the street? Aren't you afraid of them? I am. They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That's the only kind they fear. I don't know why

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.