Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

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.

Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred, The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.

I want a world where hearts are not deceived and do not deceive others.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

Our only purpose in life is growth.

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it.

A great brand is a story that's never completely told.