It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.