“What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.”

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?

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

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

The basic need of the creator is independence.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Capitalism has been called a system of greed.

The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.

Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.

The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.

Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.

Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.

All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.

With chemicals, it’s shoot first and ask questions later.

War with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world.

An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes.