Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

What's wrong with lust? You fancy your neighbor's husband so what are you supposed to do? Poke your eyes out so that you can't see him anymore? Acting on it is maybe a sin ... but my God, just lusting after someone? Is that so bad?

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.