Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.

It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".

To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means.

A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.

Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.

My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his friend.

You are a guest of nature - behave.

Revenge and rational thought never sleep together.

there is no pain in leaving as in being left behind

On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.

If the church is to impress the world with the deathless hope of the everlasting Gospel, she must be animated by that hope herself.

Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.

A decent bridge can make the worst rubbish special.

You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.