Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

I do not enter discussions with neighbors who think they can forbid me to think. I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's wish to kill me. When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him-by force.

If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind of others or the moral degenerate who grants to others the right to force his mind.

Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.