Get the hell out of my way! |
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. |
Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. |
Guilt is a rope that wears thin. |
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. |
He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating. |
He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. |
He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on teaching their fledglings to fly - yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think ... Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival - yet that was what they did to their children. |
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. |
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. - Anthem |
I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet. |
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. |
I've never been in love. I've always been a lawyer. |
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. |
In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe |