What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

There is only one universal passion fear.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.