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.

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.

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?

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

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