Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

Where there is love, there is God also.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.