Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.