Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.