My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.