"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground)

"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."
— Robert Frost

"Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down"
— Malcolm X

"If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again."
— Malcolm X

"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker"
— Malcolm X

"Who would you be but who you are?"
— Terry Brooks (The Black Unicorn)

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."
— Tallulah Bankhead

"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"
— José Martí

"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."
— Malcolm X

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
— Albert Einstein

"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."
— Leon Trotsky

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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— Leon Trotsky

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
— Rudyard Kipling

"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"كل إمرىء يحيا حياتهُ وعليه أن يجد طريقهُ بين متشعب المسالك, وهو مسؤول عن كل عملٍ يأتيه ويتحمل نتاجه, إن فائدة وإن أذى. فالفتاة التي اعتادت الإنقياد لآراء والديها وعجزت عن إتيان عمل فردي تدفعها إليه إرادتها بالإشتراك مع ضميرها, ما هي إلا عبدة قد تصير في المستقبل "والدة" ولكنها لا تصير "أماً" وإن دعاها أبنائها بهذا الإسم. لأن في الأمومة معنى رفيعاً يسمو بالمرأة إلى الإشراف على النفوس والأفكار والعبدة لا تربي إلا عبيداً. ولا خير في رجالٍ ليس لهم من الرجولة غير ما يدعون, إن هم سادوا فعلوا بالقوة الوحشية وهي مظهر من مظاهر العبودية. أولئك سوف يكونون أبداً أسرى الأهواء وعبيد الصغائر الهابطة بهم إلى حيث لا يعلمون, إلى الفناء المعنوي, إلى الموت في الحياة."
— مي زيادة

"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."
— José Martí

"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."
— Adam Smith

"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
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— José Martí

"Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible."
— Ayn Rand (We the Living: 60th Anniversary Edition)

"I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before."
— Michael Collins

"Writing of only one small part of the broader problem, namely the single-minded pursuit of individualistic 'rights,' [Don] Feder is not wrong to conclude:

Absent a delicate balance--rights and duties, freedom and order--the social fabric begins to unravel. The rights explosion of the past three decades has taken us on a rapid descent to a culture without civility, decency, or even that degree of discipline necessary to maintain an advanced industrial civilization. Our cities are cesspools, our urban schools terrorist training camps, our legislatures brothels where rights are sold to the highest electoral bidder."
— D.A. Carson (The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism)

"And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.'"
— Ayn Rand

"Herder put forward the idea that each of us has an original way of being human. Each person has his or her own "measure" is his way of putting it. This idea has entered very deep into modern consciousness. It is also new. Before the late eighteenth century no one thought that the differences between human beings had this kind of moral significance."
— Charles Taylor (Malaise Of Modernity, The)

"The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lose equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue off the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.

What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and the impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?

But I am done with this creed of corruption.

I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame."
— Ayn Rand (Anthem)

"What I was suddenly aware of was the importance of their being whatever each of them was---cocky and contemptuous, or bothered and beaten---as long as it was something they'd come to in their own way: the importance of being human, in fact. The peace and harmony Uncle Ian and the others claimed to be handing out in fact was death, because without being yourself, an individual, you weren't really alive."
— John Christopher (When the Tripods Came)

"The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive."
— Terry Eagleton (Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate)

"It's not just that people sacrifice their love relationships, and the care of their children, to pursue their careers. Something like this has perhaps always existed. The point is that today many people feel called to do this, feel they ought to do this, feel their lives would be somehow wasted or unfulfilled if they didn't do it."
— Charles Taylor (Malaise Of Modernity, The)