Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.