Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1905 Death: March 6, 1982
There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them..
Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept..
If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in o….
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence..
In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confide….
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes..
Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical..
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent fro….
The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others..
The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds. It implies a very difficult undertaking: the ….
The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training ….
If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in mo….
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority..
Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious.
When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of s….
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm ….
Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in t….
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means….
A BUSINESSMAN cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, He suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. A bureaucrat….
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity..
to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer..