Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.