Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

One might as well try to charge through a wall.