Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed...

Even the simple act of tuning the radio to a music program can lift our spirits and show the world "I'm not going to give up.

Monoculture is mono for the earth.

Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault.

In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can't help it. I'm just a cliché of myself.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.