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

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.

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?

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

Any idiot can point out a problem. So, bosses do.

What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money.

I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

All politicians have three ways of expressing themselves - the intimate dialogue that can often be violent and raw, then the dialogue in front of the camera and then big public speeches.