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.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.