The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

A machine! I have become a machine! It has taken over my life. How ironic! In a world of freedom and independence, my entire life now depends on a machine!

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office

I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.

I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.

Coincidence is just a safe conformist for fate.

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

Where there's a will there's a dead person.