It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

Napoleon is always right.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.