- What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.

You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?