There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men.

Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.

For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.

Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.