I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.
Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.
To be believed make the truth unbelievable.
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.