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

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.