[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.