The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

Anger is a prelude to courage.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.