In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.