The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

The people is dead! Good-day, Self!

We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?

Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.