The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

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.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

Fate always found its mark, one way or another.

There is a great deal to be saidFor being dead.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

New studies show that 100% of all smokers die.

The amount of time I spent on facing my negative conscious has been most of my struggle and changing my mind-set has been the biggest change in my life not my weight.

Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children.

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.