Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one

I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'.

The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.