Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man