Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.