We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

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.

All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.

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.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.