You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. Living, as you all do, on others and by them, you sneer at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.”

“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”

“The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have b…”

“I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the f…”