The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions are positive rather than negative.

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around?

Determination could easily become obsession.

Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant.

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.

Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.

In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities.

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.