Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all - why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?

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.

Everyone had something disparaging to say about the unfortunate Maltyshcheva, and the conversation began crackling merrily like a kindling bonfire.

On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.

The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.

I definitely am the kind of person that fluctuates up and down. I work really hard for a certain project and then I'm like, 'Oh, I'm done.'

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.

A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind.

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no

If we make mistakes, as we all do - don't run from God, run to Him.

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.