"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."

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The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by doing so, he undercuts the overriding importance of his own goals and principles. And if he himself values his own goals so lightly, how highly will others value them.

— Murray Rothbard