Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.