“Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.”

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

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.

I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt – just absolute confidence in yourself.

I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.