A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society — a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

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

You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.