We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

All color is no color.