Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

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