Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

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

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

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.

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."

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.

Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.