All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.