This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.