The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.