"One must separate from anything that forces..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!”

“As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.”

“Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.”

“Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.”

“The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.”

“Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.”

“Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety”

“His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.”

“I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole.”