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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.



The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.



What do you know and how do you know it



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



The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws



There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws



Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.



A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.



The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.



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.



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.



The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.



If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.



Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.



Evil requires the sanction of the victim.








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