They gave me powers of thought and memory far beyond anything natural evolution would have given me, but that doesn't give them the right to decide the meaning of my life as if I were some dream. I decide the meaning. If my life is a dream then it's my dream, I'm the dreamer.

At that point, if I had consciously realized what I was already planning to do, if I had admitted my rage, my feelings of betrayal, then my conditioning would …

As long as my body did their bidding, what did it matter what I thought?

Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom

'A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.'

Freedom exalts power; and, as is always the collateral effect of increasing strength, tends to induce a spirit of liberality. Coercion stifles power, and engen…

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give yo…