Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will….

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such….

The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but ….

Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. ….

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death..

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach..

Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands f….

The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or….

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think..

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences..

My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word….

I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone,….

In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order to define ….

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual ab….

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned..

Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the fa….

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live..

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can….

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act ….

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives..

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all..