Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

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

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

The will to be oneself is heroism

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.