The organization of society is always and everywhere the unique cause of the crimes committed by individuals.
The urge to destroy is a creative urge.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.