I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not.

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a slave and that he holds his job by his employer's permission. He does not hold it by permission - but by contract, that is, by a voluntary mutual agreement. A worker can quit his job; a slave cannot.

One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.