A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Law is born from despair of human nature.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.