“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
“You should not live one way in private, another in public.”
“The way we treat certain people in public should sqaure with the way we talk about them in private There should not be double standard.”
“Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”
“Books should be full of stuff you could never say to people in public.”
“A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy...It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.”