“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”

“That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

“Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.”

“You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.”

“Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even the best-intentioned leadership can bestow independence as a gift. The liberation of the oppressed is a liberation of women and men, not things. Accordingly, while no one liberates himself by his own efforts alone, neither is he liberated by others. Liberation, a human phenomenon, cannot be achieved by semihumans. Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.”

“The sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.”