"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
"Man is an end in himself."
"An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes."
"He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see."
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."