The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.