Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.