A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.