The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Man is a tool-making animal

I'd much rather be a one-hit wonder than a phony.

Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

As cute as baby clothes are... I try to buy less.

I'm not saying running could solve all of the world's problems, but I think it would be a good start.

Complaint is poverty.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.