“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. ”

“Make no mistake about the character of mystics. To undercut your consciousness has always been their only purpose throughout the ages - and power, the power to rule you by force, has always been their only lust (John Galt)”

“Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.”

“So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another—their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.”

“God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.”

“We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.”

“The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind”