If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.

Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

Great men can't be ruled.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.