All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .