Saad Ali

“When they lay in bed together it was—as it had to be, as the nature of the act demanded—an act of violence. It was surrender, made the more complete by the force of their resistance. It was an act of tension, as the great things on earth are things of tension. It was tense as electricity, the force fed on resistance, rushing through wires of metal stretched tight; it was tense as water made into power by the restraining violence of a dam. The touch of his skin against hers was not a caress, but a wave of pain, it became pain by being wanted too much, by releasing in fulfillment all the past hours of desire and denial.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Anarchy is law and freedom without force.
Despotism is law and force without freedom.
Barbarism force without freedom and law.
Republicanism is force with freedom and law.”
― Immanuel Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View

“The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.”
― Karl Kraus

“The contrarian dogma is simple and easy to understand: “Whatever is popular is wrong,” as Oscar Wilde proclaimed at London’s Royal Academy of Arts.”
― Windsor Mann, The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism -- The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens