A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.