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If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.
Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.
I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius.
Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.
In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!
Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?
Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America--and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.
Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.
I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them.
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.
The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.