Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1905 Death: March 6, 1982
Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will….
Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only indivi….
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to ….
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve..
It is not fools that I seek to address..
Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the solution is l….
Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shape….
Without property rights, no other rights are possible..
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live toge….
I think. I am. I will..
The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the eco….
Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by….
I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved..
Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our….
To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else..
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap..
When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no just….
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -….
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave..
The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the institution of private propert….
I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy..