Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1905 Death: March 6, 1982
Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy..
I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him..
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong to society and that….
If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interes….
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream..
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live..
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributi….
Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; ….
I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptines….
If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind..
It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for..
Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective..
The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not ….
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law..
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who….
People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so i….
The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons o….
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants..
If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argum….
I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference.
People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beg….