Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and they have a perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.

'Only the modern city,' Hegel dares to write, 'offers the mind a field in which it can become aware of itself.' We are thus living in the period of big cities.…

Our most effective terrorists, whether they are armed with bombs or with poetry, hardly escape from infancy.

One of the temptations of an artist is to believe himself solitary ...But this is not true. He stands in the midst of all, in the same rank

Like some magistrate grown gray in office, Calmly he contemplates alike the just And unjust, with indifference he notes Evil and good, and knows not wrath nor …

Now you, Coroticus- and your gangsters, rebels all against Christ, now where do you see yourselves? You gave away girls like prizes: not yet women, but baptize…

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.