All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.