The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.