Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.

Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics.

No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means.

What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?

The dust of thirty years hung lifeless in shafts of morning light, the gilding of perfectly prim pages shone incanescent, the shriek of rolling ladders mourned in perennial soliloquy.

Warren Buffett is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles which outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.

Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

We're not polishing fine china here.

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

I'd like that translated, if I may.

A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.