All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think... . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.

If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!

Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.