Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.