Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.

I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.