Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself.

Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.