“It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.”

“Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on "society's" jailing the criminal; the emphasis would necessarily be on compell...”

“Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.”

“Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.”

“The movement that Im in favor of is a movement of libertarians who do not substitute whim for reason. Now some of them do, obviously, and Im against that. Im in favor of reason over whim. As far as...”

“It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the exercise of loving care; govern...”

“Dont sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much theres nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”

“It's in the nature of the humans and the entire animal kingdom to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. But what makes us true humans is the powe...”

“Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.”

“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.”

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”

“I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say that in this case it would interfere to create a great evil; and I am not going to be turned from...”

“Scratch a libertarian these days, and you will find...a leftist.”

“Sometimes I fantasize about the US head of state as a super-lazy, super-moral libertarian despot and think, That would certainly make everything easier, even though I cant think of one person whod ...”