Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

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.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.