“All truths are bloody truths to me.”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.”

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!”

“In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.”

“The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.”

“Anybody who thinks that they are a leader and doesn't have anyone following them is just out for a walk.”

“He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.”