To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.