When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

To all the true lovers: Your unconditional love is the reason why flowers bloom.To all the beloveds: You are the reason why universe came into existence.

I'll be an artist one day because my creator's masterpiece leaves me perplexed.

It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

I am who I am. You sort of get what you see with me.

To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.

You don't have to just shop in the maternity section when you are pregnant - you can shop anywhere, just be shape and size savvy!

Part of my job is to make the tough calls.

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.