A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.