An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.