The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

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.