But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Acknowledge yourself for your greatness and your instincts and know that you always do your best even when the outcomes don’t appear that way.

No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.

We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

My mom's response after seeing a sign that read 'Love God, People and Life': 'Well a lot of people don't like people.'

One of my favorite quotes from Thomas Edison is, "If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would astound ourselves." I believe leadership is a journey of learning and growing.