The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.