"In not more than a month’s time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revoluti…"

"My machine will take off a head in a twinkling and the victim will feel nothing but a refreshing coolness. We cannot …"

"In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communi…"

"The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine."

"As the trend in the ballots slowly made me realize that — in a manner of speaking the guillotine would fall on me — I…"

"GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason."

"A transitory acceptance of the guillotine leads to its institutionalisation."

"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every mino…"

"And if my thought-dreams could be seen, they'd probably put my head in a guillotine."

"Die Leute befinden sich ganz wohl dabei! Sie haben Unglück; kann man mehr verlangen, um gerührt, edel, tugendhaft ode…"