The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.