The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

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.

Didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?” “Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.

Your grief is something to be admired – the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.

My work to promote education and literacy in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan has become my life's mission. This takes a full-time commitment 365 24/7.

I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.

The technology is already incredible and will improve massively in the next few years. Think about what you could do.

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.