To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.