When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.