Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1905 Death: March 6, 1982
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all..
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others..
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim….
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the ega….
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon….
Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force..
In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something..
Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a life-long process — and the higher the values, the har….
I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return i….
What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence….
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government..
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves….
But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't ….
But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to ….
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it..
You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you jo….
I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself..
Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary o….
Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries..
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s g….
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, ….