The only object of liberty is life.

If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.