“The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.”

“[The masses] … must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must be false, and lies must be truth. "Higher bread prices," "lower bread prices," "unchanged bread prices" have all failed. The only hope lies in a kind of bread price which is none of these, which nobody has ever seen before, and which belies the evidence of one's reason.”

“Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.”

“Bread that must be sliced with an ax is bread that is too nourishing.”

“Man can not live by bread alone… he must have peanut butter.”

“Man needs dignity even more than he needs bread.”

“To serve the people,
one must write for the ideal reader. Only for the ideal reader.
And who or what is that ideal reader? God. One must imagine,
One must deeply imagine
:: that great Attention
Only so,
In lonely dialog,
can one reach the people.”

“If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.”

“After bread, education is the first need of the people.”

“We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.”