My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

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

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

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.

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?

From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture.

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."