Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

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

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.