Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Half of the people in the world are below average.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.