Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.