Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty...