For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.