To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing.

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.

In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general election retrieved its fortunes by shooting a sufficient number of the representatives of the other side to give it a majority. . . . Cromwell and Robespierre . . . acted likewise.