A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.