Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1905 Death: March 6, 1982
Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality.
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing….
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing..
When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice.
The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves..
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea..
The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, contro….
There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of tr….
The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); ….
The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means..
An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it..
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you ….
There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as th….
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) ….
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver..
A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y del….
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'.
If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous p….
Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched"..
No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are fo….
Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default..