Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

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.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Using clichés is a substitute for thinking

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.