There can be no compromise on moral principles.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.