That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!
Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?
The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.
When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort. . . is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary.
There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.
But we don’t remember those lives. We can’t read our diaries. ’ ‘It doesn’t matter. We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next. ’ ‘But can we choose that?’ ‘I don’t know. ’ ‘We’re Dead. Can we really choose anything?’ ‘Maybe. If we want to bad enough.
If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no inclination to change employments.