I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.