When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth!

We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.

Win small, win early, win often.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

When I hear music, it's visual; I see things.

It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether "strategic" weapons, "tactical" weapons, "theatre" weapons, weapons at sea or weapons in space.