“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.

I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

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

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt – just absolute confidence in yourself.

I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.