There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

... reason accepts no commandments.

All work is an act of philosophy.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.

But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.