If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.