When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

... reason accepts no commandments.

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.