“The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.”

“If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.”

“If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?”

“The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.”

“A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.”

“Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob.”

“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 ...”

“Make a liberty without the instinctive duress.”

“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would...”

“The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majo...”

“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.”

“So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.”

“Sometimes you got to lie on the outside to keep your voice loud on the inside. We dont owe the master the truth. He owes us. Nothing comes from the master. He is the thief in the night. He steals i...”