The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.