It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

If you want to be happy, be happy.

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.