One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.