“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.”

“When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the c...”

“To accuse nations (not leaders or governments) is the hallmark of the demo-nationalist of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries; it leads to endless hatreds, feelings of revenge, misunderstandings,...”

“Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.”

“She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as ...”

“And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one...”

“Man is an end in himself.”

“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 ...”