I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!

Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.