Let Revolutionists be Romans, not Tatars.

It is impossible to reign innocently.

The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.

A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.

If all people are free, all are equal. If they are equal, they are just.

One does not make revolutions by halves.

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all.

Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

May you hear the voice of wisdom.Listening, may you act with trust.

I cannot live, if I am already dead.

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.

Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.