When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

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

I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.