Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1905 Death: March 6, 1982
There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because,….
As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority..
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so ….
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domest….
Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil..
All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by a free ma….
You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues..
Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future.
[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of the contradic….
It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very ow….
And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men..
Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. D….
America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth of private indivi….
Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to ….
I am. I think. I will..
Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become s….
The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness..
The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them on….
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative..
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence - to protect his right ….
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind..