Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.

I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.