The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

In the contradiction lies the hope.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.