"En todo caso, lo que es obvio es que Nicolás Maduro perdió. Y perdió, entre otras razones, porque es muy difícil que la mayoría de cualquier sociedad respalde a un grandullón medio bobo que habla con los pajaritos y hace campaña con un nido en la cabeza. Es verdad que la Venezuela parida por Chávez es como un gran circo, pero no tanto." -- Carlos Alberto Montaner

"If you put the [...] government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there would be a shortage of sand." -- Milton Friedman

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, who is poor." -- Seneca

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -- Winston Churchill

"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." -- George Washington Carver

"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -- John Stuart Mill

"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values." -- Ayn Rand

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." -- Ayn Rand

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)." -- Ayn Rand

"Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started." -- Ayn Rand

"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity." -- Robert Heinlein