If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.