Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.