Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and its police the State tries to obstruct all free activity and sees this repression as its duty, because the instinct of self-preservation demands it. The State does not permit me to use my thoughts to their full value and communicate them to other men unless they are its own Otherwise it shuts me up.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

The people is dead! Good-day, Self!

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."

No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.