Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.

When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically they were raised.