A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.