Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

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.

Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

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.

Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use.

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?