The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.