Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

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.

To fight with demons, your intent must be pure. And even then, there's no guarantee you'll win.

In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.

The director of the FBI...said we can't know for certain who these people are coming from Syria.

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

Bella, it's not my fault if you are exceptionally unobservant.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.