People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.