Leonard Peikoff Quotes

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The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

Leonard Peikoff
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

Leonard Peikoff
Now if you ask me, in conclusion, Well, what, then should properly be done? Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.

Leonard Peikoff
Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and — or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.

Leonard Peikoff
Responsible parenthood involves decades devoted to the child's proper nurture. To sentence a woman to bear a child against her will is an unspeakable violation of her rights: her right to liberty (to the functions of her body), her right to the pursuit of happiness, and, sometimes, her right to life itself, even as a serf. Such a sentence represents the sacrifice of the actual to the potential, of a real human being to a piece of protoplasm, which has no life in the human sense of the term. It is sheer perversion of language for people who demand this sacrifice to call themselves 'right-to-lifers.'

Leonard Peikoff
To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.

Leonard Peikoff
To those who oppose war, I ask: If not now, when? How many more corpses are necessary before this country should take action?

Leonard Peikoff
What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?

Leonard Peikoff