14 Quotes by Brian Doherty

Orange County became known, to a large degree thanks to Hoiles himself, as “nut country,” the hotbed of the rightest of the right wing, the source of Barry Goldwater’s primary victory in California in 1964.

Nock’s “plan of action” was “a plan of no action at all. To Nock there was clearly only one path to follow, and that was to learn, to think, to write, to informally teach, and then, simply wait.

Rand knew that people don’t care if something doesn’t work, as long as the dominant morality of altruism tells them that it is right.

The problem is, it builds into the idea that the world is divided into stupid people, evil people, and people who agree with me. The first thing you have to learn is that there are lots of brilliant, kind–hearted people who just disagree with you.

With Constant, the chief articulator of his generation’s liberal ideas, we see the beginnings of classical liberalism’s ‘state-hatred,’ which, after the 18th century’s ambiguous attitude, marks its theory to the present day,” noted modern libertarian and historian of classical liberalism Ralph Raico.