We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our... souls to destroy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and... much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Nap...oleon proved this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, ...not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is... the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial w...ill break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, suc...h feebleness of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and co...ntemplation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another--and always into a better set--things might be easier, but the ...trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean--there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »