The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.

The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what’s going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.

It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.

When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Hulu is about the shows, not the networks. The shows are the brands that users care about.

One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

I want to do whatever I can to survive.

You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.