“The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.”

“PROPER ROLE OF THE STATE
     I believe that the proper role of the state is negative, not positive; defensive, not aggressive. It is to protect, not to provide; for if the state is granted the power to provide for some, it must also be able to take from others, and that always leads to legalized plunder and loss of freedom. If the state can give us everything we want, it also must be powerful enough to take from us everything we have. Therefore, the proper function of the state is to protect the lives, liberty, and property of its citizens, nothing more. That state is best which governs least.”

“[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.”

“A State can be no better than the citizens of which it is composed. Our labour now is not to mould States but make citizens.”

“The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.”

“I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.”