God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight

The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society (that is, to legalize the enslavement of some men by others). There is no such thing as "the right to enslave." A nation can do it, just as a man can become a criminal- but neither can do it by right.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.