No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in money; either in matter or in spirit.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.