The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.