Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.