The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.