I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.