I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life.
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.
Never ask people. Not about your work. Don’t you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?
Don’t think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don’t think. Feel. Believe.
One loses everything when one loses one’s sense of humor.
The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.
Man’s basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.
Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.