When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.