No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals