Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1905 Death: March 6, 1982
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You….
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others..
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise..
I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions..
Get the hell out of my way!.
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values..
Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his ….
There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some ….
Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes..
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable indi….
I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the state and economi….
Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought..
One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable….
Every loneliness is a pinnacle.
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions..
Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have n….
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future..
Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a slave and that he holds his job by his employer's permission. He does not hold it by permiss….
The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another..
A gun is not an argument..
That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it..