"Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pret…"

"To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure …"

"Thus the Semitic race is to be recognized almost entirely by negative characteristics. It has neither mythology, nor …"

"In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in t…"

"A Muslim who knows French will never be a dangerous Muslim."

"As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If t…"

"Regere imperio populos, voilà notre vocation."

"All agreed in rejecting that blasphemy, that Greece was ever a province of Asia, that the Greek spirit, so free, so o…"

"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me amb…"

"Jesus, in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government. That government seems to him purel…"