Liberty of the people is not my liberty!

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.

Wisdom might be conversion into a tree.

Loneliness kills. It becomes more conspicuous in the crowd.

If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce.

The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

Even though it's hard, it's easy.

It is vital for Russia to normalize relations with the rest of the world. You shouldn't isolate your economy

Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.