“If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.”

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”

“It is only in our beautiful France that wholesale slaughter is done lawfully, in the name of liberty and of brotherly love”

“It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart. Despair says little, and is patient.”

“As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.”

“He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was no peace for men, only murder, cruelty, brutality.”