Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.

Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.

In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate art.

A sense of purpose is essential for achieving happiness and satisfaction in life.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

Some people just join the military because they need college money. Then they're idiots and college wasn't going to help.

I've signed a few sneakers in my day.

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.

Sometimes, you know, you have to cause trouble to end trouble.

Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.