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I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

Right is its own defense.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.