"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today."

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

"Justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."

"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."