You don't care what others think - which might be understandable. But you don't care even to make them think as you do? No. But that's...that's monstrous. Is it? Probably. I couldn't say.

There is only one power that determines the course of history, just as it determines the course of every individual life: the power of man's rational faculty—the power of ideas.

What brought it to pass? What disaster took their reason away from men? What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word We.

The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!

A thinking child cannot conform. Thought does not bow to authority.

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine that attacked (or "limited") reason, which did not also preach submission to the power of some authority.

Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.

It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

Maybe he'll be different from who he was and always is.

I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.