All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who are no subjugated.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

I am convinced that the teaching of the church is in theory a crafty and evil lie, and in practice a concoction of gross superstition and witchcraft

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.