There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter . . . . That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters . . .

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.