There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob |
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. |
They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his "minimum sustenance" his food, his clothes, his shelter, with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it, from whom? |
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. |
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. |
To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival; to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight |
To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I." |
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom |
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. |
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it |
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. |
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality |
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality |
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. |
What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness. |