“Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.”

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.

Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.

If distance kills a relationship; it wasn’t love to begin with.

Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.

The blood of the just will be demanded of London, burnt by fire in the year ’66. The ancient Lady will fall from her high place, and many of the same sect will be killed.

A greater persecution shall befall the Christian Church than has ever been in Africa, and will last until the year 1792, when there will be a revision of centuries.

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I’d never even thought about killing myself.