In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.

In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.