Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces his under the pressure of a frown on a vacant face.

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.

I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'