But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.