“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.”

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness.

To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.

Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.

Man cannot survive except through his mind.

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.

I vow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

When we resist God, we draw near to Satan.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.