"The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in conscious evil."

"She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth."

"Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think."

"...one cannot deal with pure evil, with the naked, full-conscious evil that neither has nor seeks justification."

"Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil."

"There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil."

"I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"

"All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative."